A weekly roundup of news from around higher education

The Pari La Petit Café Creperie has been a staple on Penn’s campus for the past 14 years, and ever since Owner Chris Falpifilldis has been petitioning the University to obtain Dining Dollars.

In 2011-2012, 55 percent were interviewed. Last admissions cycle, the number climbed to 86 percent.

After an attack on a gay couple, the House Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would expand Pennsylvania's hate crime law to cover sexual orientation.

Crime Log: Sept. 26 to Oct. 1

The Spruce Hill community might have to give up on its plans for a development consisting of residential condos, commercial retail, public parking and a public fitness center.

The advisory said that items were stolen from homes on the west end of campus.

Entrepreneurs discuss the long road to success for startupsIn a panel hosted by Weiss Tech House, three company founders shared their experiences building a business from the ground up.

For Penn sports fans, Ivy season is one of the best parts of fall, but for the teams it is often one of the most stressful.

Three new members were appointed to the junior Class Board to fill positions that became vacant because of former office-holders studying abroad.

Nearly 60 seventh and eighth grade students from local Philadelphia schools visited Penn’s Bioengineering Department this January.

With three games of their Ivy League season in the books, Penn will have their hands full this weekend as they face Yale and Brown.

The Red and Blue (2-1) is quietly putting together a strong resume heading into its week four matchup with Franklin Pierce (1-2) on Friday night.

This fuels a constant, underlying thread of competition in our interactions. If a peer says he has two midterms this week and got four hours of sleep last night, another will counter in a show of supposed empathy that she has two papers due tomorrow, pulled an all-nighter last night and is in the midst of Hell Week for an upcoming show.

I felt out of place from the first time I stepped onto Penn’s campus. Being a black male from the South who isn’t affluent and wasn’t given the opportunity to attend an elite private high school, I knew I was different from most of my peers in every aspect.

Thus, moral relativity becomes a convenient way to dogmatically support any worldview whatsoever. Of course, the relativist has the advantage of being keenly aware of his intellectual superiority because he does not really “believe” what he preaches. But this absence of belief does not necessarily represent greater practical rigor than all the dominant theistic philosophies from Lao-Tzu to Plato to Descartes.

Hannah Rosenfeld is a College sophomore from Tokyo.